City of Saskatoon
Issued at: 9.48 PM CST Sunday 4 January 2009
Wind chill warning in effect.
Tonight..Clear. Increasing cloudiness overnight. Wind up to 15 km/h. Low minus 29 with temperature rising to minus 21 by morning. Extreme wind chill minus 40.
Monday..Periods of snow. Amount 2 cm. Wind southeast 20 km/h becoming light late in the morning. High minus 12. Wind chill minus 30 in the morning.
Monday night..Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Low minus 20.
Tuesday..A mix of sun and cloud with 60 percent chance of flurries. High minus 19.
Wednesday..Sunny. Low minus 31. High minus 22.
Thursday..Snow. Low minus 29. High minus 14.
A fierce blast of snow and cold was making its way east into Manitoba on Sunday after triggering record low wind chills of -50 C and colder in neighbouring Saskatchewan overnight.
Wind chill warnings were in effect in both provinces throughout the day, prompting warnings from Environment Canada that exposed skin would freeze in less than 10 minutes.
Residents of Saskatoon woke up to the coldest temperatures since 1966, with a wind chill of -45 C, leaving the city shrouded in ice fog.
The actual temperature in Saskatoon at mid-morning was -39 C and Environment Canada lists the record low temperature on Jan. 4 as -40 C in 1966. The Saskatchewan Encyclopedia says temperatures in the -50 C range are the lowest ever recorded in the province.
i know, it’s only going up to 7C here today (44f). winter sucks.
Yeah, well, It’s a dry cold here…
Ouch, that’s really cold. We were -20C earlier this week, this is suppose to be the desert!